STELLER EIDER. 
157. Polysticta stelleri. 18 inches. 
A very beautiful species; head white, washed with greenish 
on the forehead and nape; chin, throat, neck, back, tail and 
crissum, black; under-parts chestnut; wing coverts white, the 
long scapulars black and white. 
Nest. —Are made of grasses and heavily lined with down. It 
breeds on the rocky coast and islands of Bering Sea. The six 
to nine eggs are pale olive green in color (2.25 x 1.60). 
Range.- —Arctic regions in America, chiefly on the Aleutian 
Islands and northwest coast of Alaska. 
SPECTACLED EIDER. 
158. Arctonetla fischeri. 21 inches. 
This species is black on the under-parts and mostly white 
above. The head is largely washed with sea green, leaving 
a large patch of white, narrowly bordered with black around 
each eye, thus resembling a pair of spectacles and giving it 
the name it has. 
Nest. —Is made of seaweed, grass and lined with down from 
their breast; they are placed upon the ground under over¬ 
hanging stones or clumps of grass. 5 to 9 eggs (2.70 x 1.85). 
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